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Dontavious Stockdale, a third grader from C.L. Salter Elementary School in Talladega, Ala., takes a close look at a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood displayed at The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. (Photo by Walt Stricklin)

Raymond Shine, a barber, and Sherry (Lowe) Shine, a hair stylist, decided to get married at the Birmingham Museum of Art in front of a painting, "School of Beauty, School of Culture" by Birmingham native Kerry James Marshall. The Rev. Charles Miller of The Word Ministry in Leeds Alabama officiates. (Photo by Walt Stricklin)

Raymond Shine, a barber, and Sherry (Lowe) Shine, a hair stylist, decided to get married at the Birmingham Museum of Art in front of a painting, "School of Beauty, School of Culture" by Birmingham native Kerry James Marshall. The Rev. Charles Miller of The Word Ministry in Leeds Alabama officiates. (Photo by Walt Stricklin)

Becky Walls' third grade class from C.L. Salter Elementary School in Talladega, Ala., tour Kelly Ingram Park. The park was a rallying point during the Children's Crusade marches in 1963 and is across from The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The park has several "walk-through" sculptures depicting things that went on during those marches. (Photo by Walt Stricklin)

The Alabama Theatre in Birmingham was once segregated. Now it is open to all. It is one of the many sites important to the Civil Rights Movement. (Alan Solomon/Chicago Tribune file)

A statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. faces the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, where a 1963 bombing took the lives of four young black girls. The event focused the attention of the nation on the city once known as ""Bombingham"" and has made the church a freedom shrine. (Carolyn Barta/Dallas Morning News)

Charles Cunningham walks past a statue of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a park across the street from the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Travel photos: Remembering civil rights movement in Birmingham

This year marks the 50th anniversary of some of the most important events in the civil rights movement, and many of them took place in Birmingham, Ala. The city is embracing this anniversary with a year of photo and museum exhibitions, concerts, plays, symposiums, festivals, workshops and the National Conference on Civil Rights.